Far Cry 2 DRM Follow-up [Oct 15, 2008, 09:39 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
DRM is official on the Far Cry 2 Forums is a post by a user reporting that a
conversation with a Ubisoft representative about DRM in Far Cry 2, and a
subsequent post by a Ubi Forum Manager confirms the use of the SecuROM DRM
indicated on
the French Ubisoft Shop yesterday (story). On a semi-related
note,
Riccitiello Says DRM a Minority Controversy has comments from the EA CEO
saying he feels that Digital Rights management only represents an issue for 0.2%
of their users: "We're still working out the kinks. We implemented a form of DRM
and it's something that 99.8 percent of users wouldn't notice. But for the other
.2 percent, it became an issue and a number of them launched a cabal online to
protest against it." Ubisoft has not answered our mails on the topic, but here
is the forum post on the Far Cry 2 DRM:
Some DRM points that will hopefully answer some of your questions and will clarify some misunderstandings about our DRM and SecuROM:
- You have 5 activations on 3 separate PCs.
- Uninstalling the game “refunds” an activation. This process is called “revoke”, so as long as you complete proper uninstall you will be able to install the game an unlimited number of times on 3 systems.
- You can upgrade your computer as many time as you want (using our revoke system)
- Ubisoft is committed to the support of our games, and additional activations can be provided.
- Ubisoft is committed to the long term support of our games: you’ll always be able to play Far Cry 2.
With these secuROM protected inflicted games, if you download a cracked exe, does that fix the whole activation problem?
Or would you have to download the entire pirated game? I'm guessing the former, but I'm not all that up on the workings of the pirate scene.
If it's just the .exe, and I bought the legit version, how do you prevent the game from wanting to check when you first install it?
While I don't typically let DRM stop me from buying something (Starforce shit excepted back when), I'm getting fucking annoyed that every game I now get shafts me with it. I just found out that my STEAM version of X:TC will have that fucking TAGES shit still on it. And that doesn't even make any fucking sense, since all Tages does is prevent a disc from being copied.
But those fucking drivers will still get installed through the Steam version. Fuckdammit.
Time for an annoyed smiley.
Creston
Or would you have to download the entire pirated game? I'm guessing the former, but I'm not all that up on the workings of the pirate scene.
If it's just the .exe, and I bought the legit version, how do you prevent the game from wanting to check when you first install it?
While I don't typically let DRM stop me from buying something (Starforce shit excepted back when), I'm getting fucking annoyed that every game I now get shafts me with it. I just found out that my STEAM version of X:TC will have that fucking TAGES shit still on it. And that doesn't even make any fucking sense, since all Tages does is prevent a disc from being copied.
But those fucking drivers will still get installed through the Steam version. Fuckdammit.
Time for an annoyed smiley.
Creston
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